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TOPIC- Why the FCC hates independant stations and hobby broadcasters, and why they hate Bernie
By the way- Jon Stewart was on the Axe Files, look it up on youtube. That man is how I kind of model my rant episodes.
LENGTH- 23 minutes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmorfNM8ue6Sy1LS1M0SXdESVU/view?usp=sharing
Total posts : 45366Agree….very well said!
It’s a flaw in our democrocy that a few corporations can buy governments….it’s actually “legal” corruption.
It’s very unfortunate but Bernie Sanders won’t be on the ballot when you go to vote for president. The FCC will continue to serve the 6 corporations that own all the stations.
The status quo will continue.
I’m in Canada by the way but what happens in the States has a big influence on us.
Mark
Total posts : 45366I’ll most likely I’ll most likely air this one too. I haven’t heard the other lands but this one I definitely will.
Total posts : 45366I don’t buy it.
If the FCC had wanted to, they could have shut down Part 15 broadcasters ages ago. But they didn’t.
They could have denied the LPFM petition. But they didn’t.
Sure, the FCC listens to the large corporations that control a large number of the licensed stations. They’re big, well organized, and it’s the FCC’s job to listen. I suspect that if Part 15 broadcasters were to organize and speak, much like the licensed stations, they would be listened to as well. It isn’t the FCC’s fault that the Part 15 broadcasting community is made up of small, independent and financially challenged stations and individuals, is chaotic, and can’t even agree on what the rules mean (never mind have the discipline to follow them). Hey, a lot of Part 15 broadcasters are even reluctant to advertise that they’re out there, never mind speak to the FCC.
And if we as broadcasters are not willing to operate out in the open (and as a corollary, follow the rules) and speak to the FCC, then how can the FCC listen? There is no voice.
And until there is one, I believe that complaining about it is meaningless.
Total posts : 45366Stupid speech to text that is not what I said. what I said was is that I most likely will Air this rent. I listened to the whole thing and I love it. This is something that needed to be said and I hope that the people will actually take heed to it. But I feel just like anything else it will be ignored.
Total posts : 45366I’m so disappointed in the American people. The reason I say this is because I aired the Rant show after 6PM both on the NET and on FM. It took less than 3 minutes for my listeners to drop from its original stats to only 2. THAT’S RIGHT only 2 LISTENERS actually listened on the NET.
As for FM who knows. I introduced the show by telling the people that it was from a collage student who is part of the New Radio Revolution and why we think Hobby Radio should be supported. So its not like they didn’t know what the speech was about.
I may try and air it one more time. Maybe when one of my loyal listeners are on and see what the response is (although I feel what may happen).
I realize music is important to Album Rockers, but I thought Progressive Rockers in their Elite status que would do anything to save it. But this time I can say the Elite community of Real Progressive Rockers has let me down.
I’ll probably comment on this at a later date when I have time to process this data of an otherwise uncaring audience. I was so happy A-Train done this rant as it was in direct support of the New Radio Revolution’s campaign movement.
Anyone else who has aired this rant what response did you get from your audience?
Total posts : 45366Responding to TheLegacy: I’m not sure that it is fair to blame listeners if they choose not to listen to any particular program. I would be more inclined to think they didn’t like what they were hearing. It would appear the content of the show is the problem, not the listeners. While the ‘rant’ may have some valid points, it sounds like from your comment, that the listeners didn’t want to hear it. Apparently they were willing to check it out, but if most just turned it off shortly after it started, you really can’t blame them.
In commercial radio, if he ratings take a nose-dive, management looks immediately at the content and the announcer and will make immediate changes. They never blame the listeners.
In Part 15 hobby radio, we have the luxury of airing what we want without regard to the audience–perhaps it’s music or whatever for our own enjoyment and listeners are a bonus, but the principle is the same–give the audience what they want and they will stick around and listen.
Total posts : 45366I’ll try and stay off too much politics here because this is for the New Radio Revolution’s site called The Initiative. In short however I don’t plan on running talk shows on my Album Rock station. It was a stunt I pulled to inform the public that Hobby Broadcasting does exist and it needs to be embraced.
A-Train and I have discussed this in full detail in E-Mails and over the phone. He and I are on the same track as to how we should forge for change. One important thing is public awareness. I may try this on a Sunday where as I don’t get that many listeners in the first place. I don’t want to do this during Prime Time. Plus I may want to only air this on my FM station to inform people about Hobby Radio.
I am sure people may have got scared that I’d run talk shows on the Album Rock station from now on. In which I’ll make an announcement that I will not. I’ll have to tell the audience in short that this station is a New Radio Revolution station and content is ran by the New Radio Revolution. Also if they like our content that they need to support the New Radio Revolution.
There will be more campaign ideas later as the public needs to become aware that Hobby Broadcasting does have a place and should be welcome with open arms. Again I’ll get into that on our site.
The point I tried to make is that I was surprised that more people didn’t call me as I am sure they had questions about Hobby Broadcasting. Or did they assume we are all well you know illegal operators just trying to buck authority like a teacher would lecture you about.
An experiment gone wrong and I’ll have to try another approach to inform the world about the New Radio Revolution and its mission. This is a learning experience as I go along with the whole thing.
Great advice however. My gut told me it would not be a huge success. If this was 1979 I bet it would have hit a home run however. But this day and age people think that there will always be media, FREE music and that it will never run out. This is something that comes from lack of facts, and the way America is headed.
Total posts : 45366I’m curious – how many streaming listeners do you typically get? And do you know the location of these listeners, i.e., are they local, or scattered?
Total posts : 45366Personally I believe I did a great job in this rant. Just my opinion.
As most of you havve figured out by now, I am a staunch Democratic Socialist. My opinoins are going to be very liberal, and I make zero bones about it. If the Legacy lost listeners while airing my rant, that is because they do not agree with my thoughts. It is no ones fault. I will not stop.
Total posts : 45366I thought I thought your aunt was great. I was just saying I think a lot of people are missing a good rent.
to answer questions about my listeners yes I know exactly where they are. I use two to three different databases. I generally use it for demographics so I know where they’re at so I can try and program my station based on those locations. For example people in the UK generally love album Rock and deep tracks were as certain folks in the United States are more classic rock oriented. But not necessarily 100% that way.
Total posts : 45366i am a staunch Dem. Soc. as well but i can’t air them with the foul language involved. you touched on a few of the banned from radio 7 dirty words.
Total posts : 45366to pick up some democratic news to use in your rants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1001
i frequent them often.
also my stations facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/classichits1630am
Total posts : 45366I’d like to air your last rant…if I could download and get in an MP3 file…but with me too this would violate the CRTC’s rule for BETS-1….nothing political or religous and “keep it clean”, even though what you said is correct.
Mark
Total posts : 45366LOL not to pick on you TheLegacy, but your speech to text program really makes a mess of your posts, it mis-spelled rant and a few other words changing the meanings of your sentences entirely into a different meaning.
Such as this statement you made in your opening statement in post #11 “I thought I thought your aunt was great”
I have to admit, that sentence sounded kind of perverted and it made me laugh my ass off!
Thanks for the laugh TheLegacy.
I do have to ask you Troy, if you are an AOR station, do you play all of your music from VINYL media? That’s really what an AOR station does, not various tracks downloaded from music web sites.
I do know I am still struggling to get an audience out there to stay tuned in. My stats finally show me which countries have tuned in and for how long. But I think it sometimes lacks logging in real time, although, I have seen a few from here who have logged in show up in the real time logs.
My music library is a bit all over the place, covering too many different genres to the point you are listening to rock one minute, then techno to country the next song, I think that may turn a few people off one way or the other, because not everybody likes every genres there is out there in the music industry.
To address the other concerns out there, I really think part 15 is stuck where it has been for years. There is not enough people who agree on the same ideas to make it work. Even those who agree with some of the proposals, are against a portion of them, to make the whole proposal fail.
We already know that by reading the posts others have made here, related to changes for part 15 rules, do not agree with the whole package idea or state it will fail because of various reasons, including the NAB and the licensed broadcasters themselves being the ones who will put a stop to it before it sees the light of day.
Am I one of those people? No, I am not, but, until you get everyone who has a voice to agree on the proposal, it will be tough to get it on public notice as a new rule.
Right now, there is just too much negativity out there right now for a change to look promissing anytime soon. I suppose if whatever it takes to get everyone to say “I agree” happens, there stands a chance, but right now, not enough people are agreeing and until you can convince those people to agree, the majority is rather weak right now at best.
Bruce.
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